Black Celebration

Occupation

Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by British pop band Depeche Mode. Like its two predecessors, it was produced in the Hansa Studios in Berlin, also at West Side Records, London.

Style

Black Celebration is also valid as one of the darkest and most melancholy Depeche Mode albums. According to the title, German " Black Mass ", said goodbye to the band of the pop synth sounds of the early years and tended instead proliferated in the Dark Wave environment. Through the arrangement of partially merging songs the album is reminiscent of a concept album.

Due to the less mass-market style Black Celebration and its singles were internationally unable to match the chart success of its predecessor, at least in Germany but all reached Songs Top 10 rankings, the album number two.

Title list

The titles marked with * are bonus tracks on the CD later released.

All texts were written by Martin Gore, Black Day he co-wrote with Alan Wilder and Daniel Miller. Gore sings on Black Celebration four pieces ( A Question of Lust, Sometimes, It Does not Matter Two, World Full of Nothing) - as many as usual on any Depeche Mode album. In the later CD version also came Black Day, one sung by Gore acoustic version of Black Celebration. The remaining pieces sings Dave Gahan.

Single releases

  • Stripped - February 10, 1986
  • A Question of Lust - April 13, 1986
  • A Question of Time - August 11, 1986

Following the experience of Master and Servant, and its provocative text Stripped was not published in the United States. Instead, But Not Tonight appeared there; Stripped but was included as a B- side on the single.

First produced the then unknown Flood remixes for Stripped and A Question of Lust. Later Flood produced with Depeche Mode Violator their albums and songs of Faith and Devotion.

The video for the single A Question of Time is the first collaboration of the band with Anton Corbijn, who has shot numerous videos for them to date and designed album covers and stage sets.

Setlist of the Black Celebration Tour 1986

  • It Does not Matter Two
  • Somebody

Re-Release

On 23 March 2007, a re-release of Black Celebration appeared as SACD and DVD. It contains the original eleven album songs in surround sound as well as the documentation Depeche Mode 1985-86: "The songs Are not good enough, there are not any singles and it'll never get played on the radio" also the following bonus tracks:

  • Black Celebration (Live in Birmingham, April 1986)
  • A Question of Lust (Live in Birmingham, April 1986)
  • Stripped (Live in Birmingham, April 1986)
  • Shake the Disease
  • Flexible
  • It's Called a Heart
  • Fly on the Windscreen
  • But Not Tonight
  • Breathing in Fumes
  • Black Day
  • Christmas Island

This and That

  • Black Celebration is the third of four Depeche Mode albums, whose title is taken from a Song (the others being Construction Time Again, Some Great Reward and Playing the Angel ). However, it is the only one that contains a song of the same.
  • The voice at the beginning of the piece Black Celebration is one of Daniel Miller. He says "a letter period of rejoicing " (a short moment of pleasure ) and quoted as saying of Winston Churchill's speech to the capitulation of the German Reich on May 8, 1945.
  • About the piece New Dress Martin Gore said later: "This song I am sorry to have written. I throw in the song of the Princess of Wales in front of quite bluntly, to result in complete ignorance just nice new clothes for a walk while sinking around them the country in chaos. At that time I knew little of their social commitment. I did not know that, when I wrote the mid-80s this song, the only member of the royal family was that was interested to become patron for future AIDS foundations, which it did not exist at that time in the UK. I did not know that she was an opponent of fox hunting. I did not know that she took her three year old son with William in the homeless shelters, to show him that this was also a part of the land, whose king he should be again. I knew nothing of her. I have done with her ​​New Dress profoundly wrong. "
  • The song Fly on the Windscreen was previously released as B- side to the single It's Called a Heart, revised for Black Celebration but again ( "Final " version). In the U.S. series Miami Vice, he ran in the chase in the episode El Viejo.
  • 1998 produced a cover of Rammstein Stripped for the Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses, and released the song as a single. It reached # 14 in the German single charts.
  • On the first American CD version is a mastering error. There is a repetition of the intro at the beginning of A Question of Time.
Record label Genre Andy Fletcher (musician) Hansa Tonstudio Music for the Masses Stripped (song) Flood (producer) Violator (album) Christian Eigner A Broken Frame Ultra (Depeche Mode album) Exciter (Album) Sounds of the Universe Delta Machine People Are People Never Let Me Down Again Personal Jesus Depeche Mode discography
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